Meet the Press is a weekly American television news/interview program produced by NBC. It started as a radio show in 1945 as American Mercury Presents: Meet the Press, created and produced by Lawrence E. Spivak, and first broadcast over the Mutual Broadcasting System.
Meet the Press made its television debut on November 6, 1947 and is still on the air as of 2008. It is now the longest-running television show in worldwide broadcasting history (though episode/airtime-wise the ESPN daily series SportsCenter has most air time with over 30,000 editions aired since 1979). Meet the Press is the highest rated of the American television Sunday morning talk shows, although its ratings are less than CBS News Sunday Morning, which airs in the same time slot in most markets.
Meet the Press airs in most markets at 10:30 AM ET, with some stations (including WRC-TV in Washington, DC, where this program is produced) delaying the broadcast until later. The show is also repeated Sunday evenings on MSNBC, early Monday morning on NBC as part of the NBC All Night block and is simulcast on radio stations by Westwood One. It is also available as an audio or video podcast from iTunes.
Meet the Press is an Australian television program based on the national political agenda. It airs every Sunday at on Network Ten. It has a guest, usually someone in the government, that comes to discuss the agenda and news in politics for the week with two guests from the media to ask questions to the guest. The show has been running since October 1992.
The host in 1992 was Ten newsreader, David Johnston. The current host is Paul Bongiorno who has been the host for Meet the Press since 1996. Bongiorno is also Ten’s Parliament House Bureau Chief and Political Editor.
Originally began on radio in 1945.
The longest running TV show in history.
